BARNIER PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER · Education Week - Dress up day Wednesday, 8th August Education Week - Open Day Art Auction ... Winter PSSA Semi-Finals 24th August Stage 3 Assembly

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Mon 15th Feb @ 7pm

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Monday, 6th August

Education Week - Dress up day

Wednesday, 8th August

Education Week - Open Day

Art Auction

Thursday, 9th August

Snail trail coin donation

Westpoint Blacktown Performance

Friday, 10th August

Winter PSSA Round 9

Stage 3 Assembly @ 1:45pm

Tuesday, 14th August

ICAS Maths (Years 3-6)

Wednesday, 15th August

P&C Second Hand Uniform Stall

Year 6 - PJ Day & Breakfast


Friday, 16th August

LAST DAY FOR PAYMENT Year 6 Farewell

Winter PSSA Round 10


Book Fair Browse

Monday, 20th August

Athletics Carnival Years 3 - 6

Book Fair - Before & after school

P&C Meeting @ 7:30pm

Tuesday, 21st August

Book Fair - After school

Wednesday, 22nd August

Book Week Parade

Kindergarten Assembly @ 1:45pm

Book Fair - After School (Last Day)

Thursday, 23rd August

Whole School Assembly @ 1:45pm

Book Week Theatre Performance

Winter PSSA Semi-Finals Friday, 24th August Stage 3 Assembly @ 1:45pm

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Mon 15th Feb @ 7pm

PRINCIPAL REPORT

Welcome back to school, everyone! I hope you all had an

enjoyable and happy school holiday time. We are looking forward

to a fantastic term full of great learning opportunities for everyone

and some amazing whole school events.

Staffing

This term we warmly welcome three new members of staff to our

Barnier family.

Mrs Suchita Andrews will take up the position of EaLD (English

as an Additional Language or Dialect) teacher on Monday 20th

August. Mrs Andrews comes to us from The Meadows PS and

attained this position through the merit selection process. She is

absolutely amazing, very passionate and has lots of energy as

well as tremendous expertise and knowledge of teaching and

learning. Mrs Guiang sadly left us at the end of last term, she has

moved up the coast. Class 4G will be taught by Mr Bains for the

remainder of 2018. Mr Bains is an outstanding, talented, caring

and experienced teacher who has already formed many positive

and lovely relationships with students, staff and parents here at

Barnier. We are very lucky to have him with us for the next two

terms! Finally Ms Karina Page has taken up her position as

Instructional Leader here at Barnier this term. Ms Page attained

her position through the process of merit selection and comes to

us with outstanding knowledge, expertise and experience as well

as beautiful interpersonal qualities. She will be working closely

beside staff and students to ensure that all students achieve the

highest possible educational outcomes. All three of these

teachers are warmly welcomed to Barnier and will make a

positive difference for our students.

NAIDOC Day at Barnier

We had a fantastic NAIDOC day at Barnier on Monday 30th July.

The day began with an outstanding school assembly led by our

Aboriginal students and Jie Pittman from the Liven Deadly

Program. This assembly was informative, respectful, fun and

inclusive. It was absolutely beautiful and the perfect way to

celebrate the sense of pride and belonging that our Aboriginal

students and parents feel in their culture. All students completed

learning activities in classrooms throughout the day and also

enjoyed a performance in the afternoon. I would like to sincerely

thank Jie Pittman for his passion, dedication and positive energy.

Thanks also to Renee Losiak and Kelly Housbey for their hard

work in helping to plan, organise and run the day.

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Class Visits

This term I am looking forward to teaching all stage 3 students. I’ll

also be attending all stage assemblies and doing a playground

duty every week. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to get to

know more of our amazing and wonderful students a little better

and interact in a positive way with all members of our school

community.

Staff Development Day

On Monday 23rd

July all school staff, including our Staff Learning

Support Officers and Office Staff, attended an absolutely

inspirational professional learning day focusing on student

engagement in learning, growth mindset and the importance of

student and staff wellbeing along with over 400 staff from the

Blacktown Learning Community of schools. The presenter was

Dan Haesler. It was an excellent opportunity for professional and

personal growth, providing us all with information that was most

relevant and extremely valuable.

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL)

Barnier is now a PBL school, as many of you are already aware.

We have a large team of teachers who are meeting weekly and

working hard to plan and develop this data-driven, positive

approach to student engagement across the school. As well as a

passionate PBL team, we have 100% support from all staff. I can

very confidently predict that this approach will have an

outstanding positive impact over time as I have seen PBL work

highly successfully in my two previous schools. I am looking

forward to seeing the growth and improved data that will be

happening at Barnier. Watch this space!! There will be many new,

fun initiatives this year specifically designed to support our

students to make great choices with regards to their learning and

behaviour.

School Working Bee

Many thanks to those who helped us clean up the school gardens

on Sunday 29th July. It was great to see parents and staff turn up

and work together, giving up their weekend time to help us. We

had a small group last Sunday who put in a huge amount of effort

and achieved a great deal as a result. The area worked on looks

great, although there is still lots of work to be done! We have big

plans to work alongside our P&C to beautify the school providing

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the very best learning environment possible for our students.

Please continue to speak to your children about the importance of

caring respectfully for our school environment by treating school

grounds and property with care and placing all litter in the bins

provided, so that all our hard work is not spoiled. We will be

having more working bees this term and next term so we’d love

more parents to come and help out. Many hands make lighter

work! Please check Skoolbag and Facebook notifications for

more details.

Three Way Conferences

Thank you to all staff, students and parents who participated in

our three way conferences this week. It was a real pleasure to

walk around and see such an important partnership ‘in action’

and making such a positive difference for our students.

Have a great fortnight, everyone!

Mrs Mandy Hollis

R/Principal

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Mind Marathon

Students from 5/6K put their minds to the test last Tuesday July 31st at the Mind

Marathon Competition held at East Hills Boys High School. Battling it out with

primary schools from across the Sydney region, the Barnier students eagerly and

excitedly collaborated together to work through a series of intense rounds including

mathematics, science, engineering, history, geography, English and general

knowledge. The questions were tough but that didn’t deter our students who

worked through till the very end of the tournament ensuring they answered every

last question. Leaving the high school a little tired and drained on the day, but

certainly not defeated, the team now eagerly await the news of moving into the

championship round. We wish you luck Barnier! Well done on a fantastic effort!

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NAIDOC Day

Barnier celebrated the invaluable contributions that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have made, and continue to make, during our NAIDOC Day on Monday July 30th, 2018. As part of this day, our Liven Deadly students, in collaboration with Mr Jie Pittman, presented their own NAIDOC performance in front of the whole school. It was so amazing to witness the pride and respect shown by all students and visitors. In keeping with the theme this year, we had an amazing visit from Taryn Beatty, who is of both Torres Strait Island and Aboriginal descent. Her vibrant and energetic performance enabled our students to learn a number of dances and songs from both cultures. They had a wonderful time and loved getting up on stage to dance! During class time, students completed a number of engaging activities to celebrate Australia's

Indigenous cultures.4W, KB and KJ worked together to make Lemon Myrtle Shortbread. They

may not have turned out the best, but the kids had a great time in the process!

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Working Bee

Thank you to all our amazing volunteers who helped out with our working bee on

Sunday. The garden looks amazing. More working bees will be held and we would

love more parents to come along and help.

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Farm Fundraiser We will be collecting non - perishable goods from Monday to Thursday in Week 3

(6th August until 9th August) to send to a farming community suffering the

horrendous effects of the drought. Please send any donations to your child's

classroom teacher. Look out for a note to come home with your child.

Little Big Shots

Watch out for Balreen, Sukhpreet and Agam who are a part of the DTB- Down To

Bhangra Punjabi Dance. These amazing dancers will be performing on the new TV

hit Little Big Shots that begins this Sunday. It is played on Channel 7 at 7pm.

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Letters from the Service Men and Women

Thank You Letters

Parents, students and teachers at Barnier Public School thoughtfully put together care packages for some of our Australian service women and men. These were sent to them earlier in the year. Here are some of the beautiful letters we received in appreciation of all the gifts sent. Thank you to all the parents, students and teachers who were a part of this lovely contribution.

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Letter from the Service Men and Women

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Letter from the Service Men and Women

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BARNIER P&C

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Second Hand Uniform Donations

The P&C Second Hand Uniform stall is in need of donations. Please

consider donating any uniforms that do not fit anymore or you do

not need, that are in good condition, to the clothing pool. All money

raised will go directly to the P&C, which in turn is used to improve our

childrens’ education. Donated uniforms can be left in the yellow P&C

bucket located in the office foyer or drop them off at the P&C room.

Next 2nd Hand Uniform shop is Wednesday 15th August – Week 4

Sports shirts will also be available for purchase

Semester 1 Survey of P&C Events

The survey for Semester 1 events is almost complete and ready to go.

Please keep an eye out, as it is a valued tool to communicate with the

wider community of Barnier Public School and your chance to have a

say regarding the events held.

ART AUCTION – EDUCATION WEEK

The students and classrooms of Barnier, have been extremely busy

producing the beautiful artwork creations ready for the Art Auction that is

taking place on Wednesday 8th August as a part of Education Week. Art

work will be able to be viewed via the P&C Facebook page in the lead

up to the Auction and then in the school hall in the morning on the

Wednesday. Bids can be placed during that time and the highest bidder

will be the winner. Funds raised are helping the school to purchase

valuable resources for the classrooms and beyond.

Father’s Day Stall and BBQ

The Father’s Day annual celebration is fast approaching in September.

The event organisers have been busily purchasing gifts in preparation

for the stall. We will be on the hunt for volunteers especially to help with

the BBQ, but more information will be available closer to the time.

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BARNIER P&C

We would like to thank the following businesses that donated prizes for our Parent Games Night. Without your support we would not be able to hold such fantastic events for our community and raise much needed funds for classroom and whole-school resources. We would like to encourage our community members to consider supporting these businesses in the future.

Australian Real Estate NorthWest Community Childcare Ultimate Paintball Sydney Thunder Parramatta Eels National Dinosaur Museum Captain Cook Cruises Jenolan Caves Taronga Zoo Discovery Space Pamper and Parties Kitchen Angels Sydney Art Gallery NSW Museum of Fire Scenic World BMW North Shore Flight Experience Sydney Penrith Whitewater Action Cinemas Questacon Skyzone Australian Museum Koala Park Cockington Green Australian National Maritime Museum Canterbury Ice Rink Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences Casuarina School Heavenly Selections

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Behind the scenes fundraisers

Heading to the movies? Don’t forget to take your Reading Cinemas Rouse Hill Coupons! Hand over one

coupon for each ticket purchased when you visit Reading Cinemas Rouse Hill and the P&C will receive 1

free movie ticket for every 10 tickets purchased. These tickets are used as prizes for different fundraisers

throughout the year. The coupons can be found on the P&C website:

http://barnierpandc.wixsite.com/barnierpandc/behind-the-scenes-fundraisers

Entertainment books are back. Inside are a wide range of vouchers and discounts that can be used at a variety of places - restaurants, cinemas, cafes, bowling, laser tag and so much more! Books can be purchased in digital format that can be used on your smart phone, or in hard cover copy.

Are you in need of new school shoes or labels for your children’s school items? My Name Labels and

Athletes Foot are supporters of your P&C. Further details can be found on the Behind the Scenes

Fundraisers web page of the P&C website. Follow the link below for more information:


Thank you very much for the continued support to our school community.



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Do you want to be kept informed of what is going on in the community?

Would you like to have the opportunity to help solve crime?

Go To Your

Neighbourhood Watch Eyewatch Group by typing in your group in the search engine

Request to join

Any problems contact the Crime Prevention Officer at Riverstone Police on 98382199. Established Neighbourhood Watch Eyewatch Groups

Do you want to be kept informed of what is going on in the community?

Would you like to have the opportunity to help solve crime?

Go To Your

Neighbourhood Watch Eyewatch Group by typing in your group in the search engine

Request to join

You will need to fill in a members application form before you are accepted into the group and send the form

to the Police Station. Any problems contact the Crime Prevention Officer at Riverstone Police on 98382199. Established Neighbourhood Watch Eyewatch Groups

If you do, just our page at - Quakers Hill PAC – NSW Police Force

Quakers Hill Neighbourhood Watch Eyewatch Group

If you do, just our page at - Quakers Hill PAC – NSW Police Force

Dean Park/Colebee Neighbourhood Watch Eyewatch Group, Quakers Hill Neighbourhood Watch

Eyewatch Group,Kings Langley/ Kings Park Neighbourhood Watch Eyewatch Group, Greater Riverstone

Neighbourhood Watch/Eyewatch Group, Stanhope Gardens/Kellyville Ridge Neighbourhood Watch Eyewatch Group, Glenwood Community Eyewatch, The Ponds Neighbourhood Watch Eyewatch Group,

Schofields Neighbourhood Watch Eyewatch Group

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